SOMOS Annual meeting
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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Salter Harris Type III Frx



- Discussion:
    - usually occurs after 10 years;
    - this type of frx generally occurs when the growth plate is partially fused;
    - prognosis is poor unless there is early accurate reduction;
    - type III physeal injuries involve separations of portion of epiphysis and its
          associated growth plate from the rest of the epiphysis;





Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.